The Occupiers are right about American incomes: They've definitely grown more unequal. But this fact presents three inconvenient truths for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

John Kerry is right that there was a mysterious 13th member at the table who caused the supercommittee to fail. But it wasn’t Norquist. It was Occupy Wall Street.

Conservatives and free-enterprise advocates should seize the moment to show their own passion for the issues being debated—and, where appropriate, even embrace the protesters’ moral critique of America’s distorted and depressed system.

In the latest AEI Political Report, the AEI Politics team looks at at the new phase of 2012 campaign from a variety of angles. 

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We're about to enter a very long campaign in which where an apparently squeaky clean Mitt Romney is going to be demonized for his success and dragged through the gutter. Meanwhile, Obama took cash from a true denizen of the gutter.

The Occupy Wall Street phenomenon is perfectly understandable if we recognize it as an artifact of the conventional narrative about the financial crisis—that it was caused by Wall Street greed and insufficient regulation. If the demonstrators new the truth—that the government's housing policy caused the financial crisis and the subsequent recession—they would be on the Capitol steps.

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